Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj -est] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their suction-boots seemed to allow them to walk up and down the steepest branches with the greatest ease , and some were even walking upside-down underneath the branches . |
| 2 | If the Greeks had , for instance , thought through the deepest problems of life and if Germans aspired to emulate their profundity , the Greeks had also possessed a rich and much admired language which was likewise not beyond emulation . |
| 3 | Statues were pointed at and the shattered grand piano from the drawing-room in the hope that they might help , if only a little , to shore up the weakest banks of soil . |
| 4 | American bilateral agreements that permitted fifth freedom rights especially alarmed the British , as they believed that the United States would be able to scoop up the best routes in a piecemeal fashion . |
| 5 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 6 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 7 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 8 | Van Praagh became a close friend of the Cranko family , Herbert and Phyllis as well as John ; she proved a valuable ally , not only for her position within the company but also because she had a flair for bringing out the best qualities of young dancers and choreographers , and guiding them in their careers . |
| 9 | After asking them all about their latest film , their hobbies , their lovers , wives , husbands , children , and anything else of interest , our researchers will come back with their tape-recorded notes , pick out the best bits of their interview and write up a biography . |
| 10 | The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better . |
| 11 | And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment , so you are prepared for the exhilaration . |
| 12 | Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed . |
| 13 | An in-service activity can be conceived as something one person does to another , with the assumption that change is most effectively produced from outside ; or as a process in which teachers are centrally involved in analysing their own situation and needs and working out the best ways of tackling these . |
| 14 | Sukman Hui , director of Soho 's Chinese Community Centre , says local groups welcome the team and will work out the best ways of cooperating . |
| 15 | If you are avoiding fried food , it follows that you should be seeking out the best methods of cooking noted on the menu . |
| 16 | The latter methods are used by every modern choreographer working with classical dance because it is more flexible and expressive and many dancers trained in its technique are capable of acting out the deepest emotions of the characters played , as Ashton and MacMillan have continually shown . |
| 17 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 18 | The walls of the cottage were thick enough to shut out the worst sounds of the storm 's buffeting , and even the creaking of doors and rattling of windows could not keep me awake for long . |
| 19 | I do n't think it 's condoning , I just think it 's given the safe , giving out the safest options for people who maybe taking drugs and , and and maybe in , in maybe er sometimes thinking about injecting drugs , and er I think we actually have to be very clear on this epidemic , that , that there is no , no way for , for lack of clarity , we have to go down the line . |
| 20 | Company secretary tries out the latest conveniences at head office — Portaloo 's ! |
| 21 | Today 's teenagers go to nightclubs where mega-watt public address systems pump out the latest chart-toppers to a dark and sweaty throng . |
| 22 | Note that if the list contains packages which contain modules as LATEST instead of SELECTED , a subsequent call to READ_COMPLETE_ROOT_PACKAGE will read out the latest versions of these modules at that time . |
| 23 | Check out the latest varieties on sale at garden centres . |
| 24 | In one corner , a blue computer screen blips out the latest scores for anyone with good enough eyesight to read the small print . |
| 25 | The engagements used to go to the artists who brought them back the best presents from their tours abroad . |
| 26 | The 1988 Education Reform Act brought about the greatest changes to the education system since 1944 . |
| 27 | The Insolvency Act 1986 , which became law on 29 December 1986 , brings about the greatest changes in bankruptcy law and practice for more than a century . |
| 28 | However , a decisive full moon in your opposite sign of Libra on 10 April is likely to bring about the greatest changes in your life and even mark the end of one long-standing involvement . |